"until the government changes them" ... our govt is dysfunctional - those laws aren't changing anytime soon, regardless of a majority of U.S. voters wanting them to change them. Presumably you're the more »

Actually to be clear about it the program takes the digital fingerprints (taken for whatever reason by local police) which are already passed on automatically to the Department of Justice (FBI) and pa more »

Might want to mention the fact that there is a ballot petition out there to get people to actually weigh in on the issue rather than pols, who are far more easily bought off (seeing how there are fewe more »

But if you're in Cambridge, you at least HAVE public transportation. The point is that in these particular communities, especially those outside of the MBTA's reach, low income people (many of whom a more »

It's amazing! There is apparently more waste & fraud in govt than there is money going into it! The anti-govt crowd has discovered cold fusion, a perpetual motion machine and a cure for baldness, al more »

And they aim to increase their profits by putting dozens of communites at greater risk by bringing in millions of gallons of highly explosive ethanol by rail straight through some of the most densely more »

When the Irish and the Italians were establishing their voices in local politics, did they all vote as a "Catholic-European immigrant bloc"? Not really. Then why should Dominicans, Salvadorans and C more »

What a wondeful suite of comments! I believe there's a fat man's crack for you all to climb back into and feel comfy with the hemorrhoids and dingleberries. You know, something more your speed. In more »

There are plenty of folks out there looking for work. And some find it getting paid to post conservative talking points on boston.com. In their underwear. In their parents' basement. When they're not more »

What the hell? Not one email calling for less government, calling for Obama's socialist head or 'Cadillac' Devall's? I think there are some troglodytes asleep in their basement man-caves. Quick somebo more »

They're building one of these across the Chelsea Creek between East Boston and Chelsea. Aesthetically not much to write home about, but no one has complained so far. Piping the "product" up-river does more »

There are a number of industrial-zone, port-side properties that have access to deep water, many of them vacant and many of them backed up to appropriate transportation facilities (highway and/or rail more »

Chelsea indeed has a Creek. It actually has fairly low levels of residential pollutants in it and when the oil companies aren't screwing up or going for want of couplings that go for $2.50, the amount more »

Someone at the BRA screwed up. They had a property that was bringing in tax revenue from the previous owner (Hess) that they decided to buy for nearly $2 million dollars (and take off the tax rolls) a more »

All these "vote 'em out people" who are posting in favor of slots, casinos, selling your sister's spleen, child labor and legalized prostitution and crack houses, who the hell do you think will manage more »